Meeting The One For Me

Chapter 21

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Tia didn’t wait for Audrey to reply.

She spoke with a nagging tone, “Audrey, please persuade your grandfather. We really don’t want to ruin his reputation, and yours, by bringing this onto the show. He’s a university professor, isn’t he? Won’t his reputation as an educator be tarnished if this blows up?”

Audrey’s face darkened, “What do you want?”

“I heard professors are given houses by the university. Ask your grandfather to transfer a house to your brother Adam. If not, buy him a villa in Sheysea and a car worth half a million dollars. The car isn’t our demand. It’s what the bride’s family wants.”

Tia continued, “They’re also asking for a wedding gift of 660 thousand dollars. Your mother was your grandfather’s only child. Now that she’s gone, he only has Adam.

your grandfather owns should belong to Adam. If he’s holding onto his wealth so Adam doesn’t inherit what’s rightfully his, your mother

a calm voice, “You tortured my birth mother to death! If Mr.

the phone!” bellowed Wayne Yeomans, Audrey’s biological father. He couldn’t contain his

Mr. Lambert from seeing Adam so you can monopolize the house and money for yourself. That old man’s house and money belong to Adam. If you dare

she was 12, we received a five thousand dollar deposit from Jolin Watson’s family. But your sister couldn’t bring Audrey back, and I

to bring Audrey back to bear his children. If

life is mine to take. If I want her dead, she has no right to live. That’s just how

money, and buy him the

vicious as Audrey remembered him being when he beat her and her mother in the cellar, a stark contrast to the usual façade of

others.